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WHO declares Ebola outbreak an international emergency

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the nearly year-long Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a Public Health Emergency...

Painted-on salt provides glowing thermometer for tiny things

Temperature is notoriously difficult to measure, mostly because it's an average quantity. The temperature of a room is often recorded at a single...

DEA tracked every opioid pill sold in the US. The data is out—and it’s horrific

Between 2006 and 2012, opioid drug makers and distributors flooded the country with 76 billion pills of oxycodone and hydrocodone—highly addictive opioid pain...

War Stories: Designing Dead Cells was a marriage of man and machine

Is it better to build a game by hand, piece by piece, or to program a computer that can build that game for...

Ford designs a pickup truck emoji, petitions Unicode Consortium

Did you know that July 17 is World Emoji Day? No, me neither—at least not until Ford used the celebration of these 21st...

New standard Switch model will improve battery life about 40 percent

Further ReadingEvidence points to another Switch hardware revision on the horizonLast week, we broke down the evidence that Nintendo...

Justice John Paul Stevens, dead at 99, promoted the Internet revolution

Former Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens died Tuesday at the age of 99. During Stevens' tenure on the high court, which stretched...

Apple is planning to buy up original podcasts with exclusivity in mind

Podcast fans will want to keep their ears to the ground with the latest Apple news. Bloomberg reported that Apple may be looking...

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